Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Gladstone answered an inquiry by Laboucbere, in the House of Commons, on the 24th of April, by saying that the Government had decided to make no further declarations to Russia through Parliament. The Armstrong works at Newcastle declined to fill an order from Russia for war material. Rus*sian naval officers retired on half-pay have been ordered on the active list. A dispatch from Tangier states that the special French mission, recently arrived there, will soon start for Fez to present the Sultan of Morocco with six field guns and a number of other valuable gifts. The members of the English Government maintain the strictest sileuce in regard to the negotiations which are still actively progressing between England and Russia. The Czar hns twenty men-of-war in commission to protect his capital and the Baltic ports. M. Barrere, the French Charge d’Affaires at Cairo, has recoived instructions to suspend official relations with Egypt. It is said that the Egyptians offer to make a partial apology to settle the dispute about the suppression of the French newspaper.

British transports at Woolwich have been ordered to load war stores for India, and orders have been given for the construction of forty gunboats of a new type. The Egyptian Government has taken no action looking to a compromise in reference to their suppression of a French paper, but on the contrary appear to justify their conduct. France, however, remains firm in her demands for reparation, and the negotiations to that end arc being conducted-by a Greek diplomatic agent.

England has repeated her demand upon Russia for a military inquiry into the circumstances of Gen. Komaroff’s battle with the Afghans. A similar request having boen already rofused by Russia, this second attempt is construed as a desire on tho part of tho Lion to postpone the ultimatum to tho Bear. In this connection it is stated that the Duchess of Edinburg has been induced to write a letter to the Emperor of Russia, her brother, imploring him to avert a war at any cost. Meanwhile Indian sentimout is all for war, and a deputation of native chiefs has offered to contribute heavily to the expenses of tho oontest.